Improvement in the manufacture of vegetable fur



' UNITED STATES PETER B-AUMe-EAS, or SYEAc USE, NEW YORK, ASSieNoE To HIMSELE AND CEAS. E. LIVINGSTON, or UNITED STATES ARMY.

YIMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF VEGETABLE FUR., SLC.

Specification forming part ofLcttcl-s Patent No.42.,326, dated AprillQ, 1354.

To all whom it may concern: tufts stand with their stem ends outward, as

Beit known that L'PETER BAUMGRAS, of represented at Fig. These tufts spring Syracuse, in the State of New York, have inf from a center and spread themselves out vented a method of utilizing the seed spike or into twentyA or more do'wny bers, each of club Vof Vthe Typha, latrfol-ia, commonly known aboutequal length, as `Shown at Fig. D. All

as the Uats tail Flag, and thus'rendering these are attached to the a-rtiticial skin by a hitherto useless article. highly serviceable; their outer extremities. By simply burning and Idohereby declare the following to be the nowV outer extremities of these tufts the one of the processes bywhich that effect is bers stand each independently 'and formthe Pl'OdllCedsoft furry substance desired. This burning This prcess consists in forming from the may be done by a smooth plate or other me- A 'downy substance in which `the seed of the tallicsurface heated to a sufficient degree, or

plant is embedderhand which in lits natural the ends may be cutoil by a sharp instrustate is closely packedaround the central ment. The fur thus prepared is capable of Y stalk; and constitutesthe club or spike of the being-bleached intoperfectwhiteness or of vplant,a'aregetable furpfabeautiulsilkyecn A being dyedof 4any'desirabltecolor and' made' slstoncy, and which can beV advantageously to resemble in consistency and appearance the used for various purposes for which animal `most beautiful animal furs. If itis desirable fur has heretofore been employed. To eect to spread the fur over a larger surface, this is this purpose, after selecting 4these seed-spikes easily accomplished as follows: After sep- I'brush oif vthe brown pollen until the ends of arating what I term one skin lof this fur the silken fibers are fullyl exposed. These from its stem it may be.wrapped around a spikes are then coated with` a thin Sheet 'of cylindrical surface of about the same diameter plastic india-rubber^or some equivalent subas the original elub7 the artificial skin be- .stance.. Glue, gutta-percha `or other vegetaing placed inward. The fur will now stand ble gums may be used for this purpose; but I with its harsh points outward, formingy a cyl prefer india-rubber, whichmay be applied in inder of about doublev its former diameter7 as i,

la manner similar to that by whichits applicashown at Fig. K. They will be found to tion is made to felt for Shoes and other like spread themselves with great regularity. purposes. This may be backed by woven Another sheet of plastic rubber-may now be fabricsof silk or .cotton or other like textile applied tothe present exterior 'surface of the fabricsin order togiveitthereqnisitc strength. cylinder, and then by separating the other To produce'a vmore perfect result the club extremities of these fibers from the `first skin or spike'inayjbe prepared and given a more a skin of double size will be produced with exactY cylindrical shape by means of proper thedownyendsoutward. Thisproeess may b machinery ibut this is not necessary to the stillfurther continued, if desirable. -z'In orderrsuecessful-application of the process. Either to facilitate this operation the artificial skin before Aorafter the backing of the artificial first-used may be made of some soluble subskin by the woven fabric the'spike may be stance, or the fur may be so arranged insome laid open by alongit'udinal incision,as shown4 other way as to be easily detached from the in Figure B in the drawings. This may be first skin. It should be made to adhere closely vdene by Va knife or othersuitable instrument, to the last skin-that to which it is to be at- .The vegetableirwillreadilyfseparate from the tacked for useand onlyislightly attached to central stem, around whih'it'grew, and, being any previous artificial skin. After this' fur .iirxnly attaehedfto the artiicialskin aforesaid, i has been developed on its artificial skin,` as (scc Fig. 1,)'it will resemble animal fur upon above described, it may be laid on a` dat surits natural skim "Therubberznay then be -vnl face, as shown at Fig. G. Another such skin canizedfor this 'vulcan'iza-tion may take'place mayw 'then be prepared and applied tothe at an earlier stage ofthe process. When thus' upper extremities of the'fnr. The whole may prepared the fur I 'presents a harsh feeling to then be severed, as shown at Fi .H, so as to formI the-'touch'.owinggto the'factthat the seem two-skins from onesingle seed-spike. In order 2 v A Y 42,326

to unite several of these small furry skins so as to form a larger one off any desirable size, I prepare `them with each its temporary skin vand lay them on a level surface with this temporaryv skin downward. They are then so trimmed in size as tocompletely cover the entire surface'. I then prepare a sheet of plastic rubber sufficient' to cover the upper surface of all these skins united and apply the same as above proposed,vand-vback this up with the Woven fabric above contemplated. The tem- `poz'ary skins-upon the lower surface are then removed and the permanent-skin duly vulcanized, when the whole will become one sheet of vfur upon its artificial skin.

I am aware that the silky floral filaments of plantsof the several species of the family Typha' have been proposed to be used by Randall Creswell, in his lEnglish patent of 41557, for purposes similar to vthose contem- Vl v plated by me,.`but in a manner that can never b e of any practical utility. I do not there'- fore claim, broadly, the utilizing of that corni modi'tyforpurposes herein contemplated; but i What'l do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Making the seed-tufts of the Tf1/phd lati i folz'a into vegetable fur upon an artificial skin by the process and in themanner which is substantially herein described.

2,. Separating the downy fibers of the seed spike of thez/pha latvfoZ-ia fromi ts stalk or culm by attaching` an artificial skin around its exterior surface and then detaching the seed-tufts, as above set forth. v

3. Making two artificial skins of fur from one single spike in the manner above described.

Vet. `Uniting two or more smaller skinsV toV 'Y make' one larger one, substantially as above shown.

5. Spreading the vegetable fur so asto' be less dense and 'to occupy more space in the manner described. i

PETER BAUMG'RAS. Witnesses:

` R. T. CAMPBELL,

E. SHAFER. 

